Finches Small, Enchanting Birds that are Easy to Keep and Care For
Put a cage full of finches in a room if you want to breathe life into it. In reality, the term “Finch” kinda-sorta describes hundreds of “passerines.” You can tell a passerine because they have three toes facing forward and one facing back which helps in perching on a lot of different surfaces and tiny […]
Why has some of my favorite bird food and care products gone missing?
First little housekeeping. Popcorn’s off her eggs! Follow her adventures on Twitter This weekend marks daylight savings time where we set our clocks back one hour. My former brother-in-law who is from India never understood nor accepted daylight savings time because he could never figure out where the hour went. Then again living in […]
Zygodactyl Footnotes from October 2015
Hello Windy City Parrot I am visiting friends in Puerto Rico and they have a 2-year-old Moluccan Cockatoo. He is very needy.. loves to be petted and is a little neurotic. The past few months he has been pulling the feathers out to bloody skin and pecking at it around his neck to the point […]
I Want My Freakin Bird Back but She’s Held Hostage by Her Eggs
Mark Hagen is to Parrot Knowledge as Dennis Yu is to social media or as Michael Jordan is to basketball. His knowledge base of parrot breeding is second to none. He’s got a Master’s Degree in agriculture and runs the largest single parrot research Institute on the planet – HARI. He IS the creator of […]
Parrotlets – Big Birds in Small Bird Bodies
Parrotlets – although appearing to be about the size of a parakeet, is not how they see themselves. They definitely have a big bird mentality and an abundance of energy. Because they had not been in captivity for all that long nobody really knows their average lifespan which is generally expected to be around 15 […]
Parrotlets Are Big Birds In Small Bird Bodies
Parrotlets – although appearing to be about the size of a parakeet, is not how they see themselves. They definitely have a big bird mentality and an abundance of energy. Because they had not been in captivity for all that long nobody really knows their average lifespan which is generally expected to be around 15 […]
This Is Your Bird on Eggs. Can Chronic Egg Layers Anonymous Help?
“I’ve got a lot of addictions but not a lot of time so I’ve been going to polkaholics anonymous because they offer a two-step program” mitchr So Popcorn our cockatiel, (pictured above) has become a prolific mom and if we put our hand within 12 inches of her in her cage, my arm will be […]
Two wheeled motor vehicle safety
the post date is actually 10/12/15 – the 1/1/2010 date is for database sorting purposes. I apologize for the confusion I have been a motorcyclist for almost half a century (48 years to be exact). Motorcycling is about the anticipation of what’s about to come and predicting the actions of others around. You don’t put […]
Nutritional Resources for Feeding Your Bird
Nutrition Resources Obtaining sound and biases information on nutrition and feeding of birds & parrots from reputable sources is not always easy. For your convenience, we provide links to several respected sources of information from professional and governmental organizations below. The National Academies, National Research Council The National Academies National Research Council – a non […]
Do Birds and Parrots Need More ICD-10 Medical Codes?
What’s he talking about now Martha? So my sister the psychotherapist sent me an article from NPR entitled Struck By A Macaw? Now there’s a medical diagnosis code for that found here. Our federal government is mandating that On Thursday, doctors, hospitals, and health insurers must start using the ICD-10, a vast new set of […]